COMMON COD. 143 



SUBBRA CHIA L 



MALACOPTERYG1L GAD1DJE.* 



THE COMMON COD. 



THE KEELING. 



Morrhua vulgaris, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 331. 



Cod, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 191, sp. 76. 



,, Codfish, Keeling, WILLUGHBY, p. 165, L. 1, fig. 4. 



,, ,, LINNJEUS. BLOCK, pt. ii. pi. 64. 



,, ,, Common Codfish, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. Hi. p. 231. 



Codfish, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 106. 



Generic Characters Body elongated, smooth, compressed towards the tail ; 

 back furnished with three dorsal fins ; ventral fins pointed ; abdominal line 

 with two fins behind the anal aperture ; the lower jaw with one barbule at the 

 chin ; branchiostegous rays 7. 



BARON CUVIER'S first division of his second order of 

 fishes, those with flexible fin-rays, and with the ventral fins 

 attached to the abdomen, being concluded, the soft-finned 

 fishes of the second division, or those forming his third 

 order, succeed. These are recognised by having the ventral 

 fins placed very near the pectorals ; the bones supporting the 



* The family of the Codfish. 



